The Bhagavad Gita according to Gandhi
Subtitle: text and commentary translated from Gujarati
By: Mahatma Gandhi ; edited by John Strohmeier.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781556438004
Subjects: Bhagavadgītā -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Other titles: Bhagavadgītā. English.
Description: "Based upon talks given by Gandhi between February 24 and November 27, 1926 at the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad, India. During this time--a period when Gandhi had withdrawn from mass political activity--he devoted much of his time and energy to translating the Gita from Sanskrit into his native Gujarati. As a result, he met with his followers almost daily, after morning prayer sessions, to discuss the Gita's contents and meaning as it unfolded before him. This book is the transcription of those daily sessions. The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is considered one of the greatest religious classics of Hinduism. The entire text of the Gita is a conversation between Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, and a general of one of the armies"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Previously published: Berkeley, Calif. : Berkeley Hills Books, c2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.